Baby name
RISING
🇺🇸 Kaliya
/kah · LEE · yuh/
Meaning
“Serpent subdued by Krishna”
Two separate origins are documented for this exact spelling. In Sanskrit, Kāliya (कालिय) is the name of a poisonous serpent, or Naga, that lived in the river Yamuna and was subdued by the god Krishna in Hindu mythology. Separately, as a modern English given name, Kaliya is recorded as a variant of Calea, a rare modern English name with no recorded meaning of its own.
Nicknames
liya
Vibe
mysteriousbold
How it ages.
A modern, uncommon pick with a striking mythological echo underneath for parents who want something different.
The cultural moment.
Very rare as a given name; the clearest documented use is in the United States, where it appears occasionally as a modern coinage.